Residency Orientation Schedule
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
9AM: Residency Introduction
- Welcome
- Meet with program directors
- Hospital orientation: Hospital
Tour - Administration,
Laboratory, Nursing, Pharmacy,
Radiology
- Get Resident handbooks
Date
9AM: Administration
- Administrative issues
- Student Affairs
- Pay issues
9AM: Lectures
- Basic Life Support (Dr. Nassim
Saba- Cardiologist)
- EKG Lecture (Dr. Nassim Saba)
9AM: Lectures
- Asystole / Ventricular
Fibrillation / Ventricular
Tachycardia (Dr. Nassim SabaCardiologist)
9AM: Lectures
- Management of Tachycardia /
Bradycardia (Dr. Nassim SabaCardiologist)
Saturday
Sunday
9AM: Lectures
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
(Dr. Nassim Saba-Cardiologist)
9AM-12PM: Lectures and skills
labs
- Advanced Trauma Life Support
(Dr. Majib Kawair-Urology)
Saturday
9AM-12PM: Lecture and Skills
labs
- Airway Management: Bag Valve
mask, Endotracheal intubation,
cricothyroidotomy (Dr. Amad
Shah- Anesthesia)
1PM: Practical Exercise / Skills
Lab (Dr. Nassim Saba)
1PM: Practical Exercise / Skills
Labs (Dr. Nassim Saba)
1PM: Practical Exercise / Skills
Labs / Management of Stroke
(Dr. Nassim Saba)
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
9AM-12 PM: Lectures and Skills
Labs
- Advanced Trauma Life Support(
Dr. Majib Kawair- Urology)
9AM-12 PM: Lectures and Skills
Labs
- Advanced Trauma Life Support
(Dr. Mojib Kiwar)
9AM: Lectures
- Handwashing (Dr. Asifi – Prev
Med)
- Immunizations (Dr. Hamraz-ID)
1PM:
- Medical Ethics (Dr. Shakar
Qahidi)
- Stress (TBD)
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
9AM-12PM: Lecture and Skills
labs
- Chest tube insertion, needle
decompression (Dr. Sayeed
Aminullah Sadat)
9AM-12 PM: Lecture and Skills
labs
- Peripheral lines and central line
placement; intraosseous line (Dr.
Amad Shah - Anesthesia)
9AM: Lecture and Skills lab
- Basic of suturing (Dr. Majib
Kawair-Urology)
- Wound management (Dr.
Majib Kawair-Urology)
9AM: Lecture and Skills lab
- Basic of fracture management
and casting (Dr. Nikoma
Shinouri- Orthopedics)
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
9AM: Basics of writing notes
- Admission, Progress notes
(SOAP), Operative, Procedure
and Discharge notes (Dr. Siadi –
cardiology)
1 PM: Prescription writing (TBD)
9AM: Basics of patient
presentations:
- How to obtain an
accurate/concise patient history
and physical examinations (Dr.
Siadi – cardiology)
9AM: Basics of human anatomy
- Review of anatomy basics for
surgeons: Vascular,
Bones/Muscles, Visceral Organs
(Dr. Totakhil –Orthopedics)
9AM: Sterile technique
- Sterile OR technique (Dr. IobeyOperating Theater)
- Surgical instruments
introduction (Dr. IobeyOperating Theater)
9AM: Last day
Resident rotations
Call and lecture
schedule (Guidelines)
White coats
1PM: Skills Labs
1 PM: Interpretation of labs
(LCDR Nunez,
Flanagan/O’Sullivan)
1 PM: Basics of reading
radiographs (Dr. Rahimi –
Pulmonary)